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Efficiency vs Adept - What's the difference?

efficiency | adept |

As nouns the difference between efficiency and adept

is that efficiency is the extent to which time is well used for the intended task while adept is one fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.

As an adjective adept is

well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.

efficiency

English

Noun

  • The extent to which time is well used for the intended task.
    • The efficiency of the planning department is deplorable.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=September 7 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Moldova 0-5 England , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The display and result must be placed in the context that was it was against a side that looked every bit their Fifa world ranking of 141 - but England completed the job with efficiency to record their biggest away win in 19 years.}}
  • (dated) The quality of producing an effect or effects.
  • * Hooker
    • The manner of this divine efficiency being far above us.
  • The extent to which a resource, such as electricity, is used for the intended purpose; the ratio of useful work to energy expended.
    • The efficiency of this loudspeaker is 40%.
  • (United States) A one-room apartment.
    • I have an efficiency available June through July.
    fully-furnished efficiencies

    Antonyms

    * inefficiency * wastefulness

    Derived terms

    {{der3, energy efficiency , material efficiency , fuel efficiency , efficiency ratio , business efficiency , quantum efficiency , electrical efficiency , thermal efficiency , algorithmic efficiency , Pareto efficiency , allocative efficiency}}

    Related terms

    * effect * effective * effectiveness * effectivity * effector * effectual * effectuate * efficacious * efficacity * efficacy * efficient * efficiently

    Synonyms

    * effectiveness * (qualifier) bedsit

    adept

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient
  • * 1837-1839 ,
    • Adept as she was, in all the arts of cunning and dissimulation, the girl Nancy could not wholly conceal the effect which the knowledge of the step she had taken, wrought upon her mind.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * inept

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.
  • * 1841 , , Barnaby Rudge :
    • When he had achieved this task, he applied himself to the acquisition of stable language, in which he soon became such an adept , that he would perch outside my window and drive imaginary horses with great skill, all day.
  • * 1894-95 , , Jude the Obscure :
    • Others, alas, had an instinct towards artificiality in their very blood, and became adepts in counterfeiting at the first glimpse of it.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * apt * aptitude

    Anagrams

    * pated, taped

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